After
tracking down Dexter and confronting him on his job at the police department
- and threatening his family - Arthur Mitchell (the Trinity Killer),
leaves, smugly confident that he has bluffed down his opponent.

Dexter,
enraged that he has put his family in danger, is determined to kill Trinity
immediately.

So
he follows him out to the parking lot and then pursues
him in his car as Trinity drives away.

Along
the way, as Dexter weaves through traffic to avoid losing Arthur, he accidentally
clips another car, knocking off its side mirror.

Eventually,
Trinity stops, when he pulls into the parking garage of Stafford Bank.

Dexter
lies in wait for him, and when he returns, he knocks him out with a syringe
and throws him in the back of his van.

In
the process, he discovers a large amount of cash in an envelope, and realizes
that Arthur was planning to get out of town, and wanted to withdraw all
of his money from his bank account - leaving his family destitute.

But
just as he is about to finish off Arthur, the guy who was driving the car
Dexter clipped shows up with the police in tow.

Dexter,
not wanting to be caught with the unconscious Arthur, stashes the cash
on top of a garage lamp, then goes to talk to the guy and the cops.

That
conversation does not go well.

When
he tries to get the cops to go easy on him because he's a fellow cop, they're
having none of it. And the guy makes matters worse by recording the
conversation on his phone camera, causing Dexter to lose his cool and smash
the guy's camera.

As
you might expect, the cops react by taking him down and dragging him off
to jail, leaving the unconscious Arthur in the van.

Later,
Dexter is released when Rita comes to get him, and he heads back to the
bank parking garage.

But
it's too late. Arthur is gone.

Dexter
retrieves the hidden money (planning to return it to Arthur's family) and
begins a long hunt to track down Trinity once and for all.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A parking
garage next to a theatre & convention center.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. This parking
garage is located at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center.
The official address of the center is 300 Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach,
CA.

But this particular
parking garage entrance (shown on the show, and in the photos below)
is actually located on the south side of Seaside Way,
across a driveway from (east of) the center's Terrace Theatre,
at the south end of S. Hart Pl., between Elm & Locust.

Seaside Way
is a small east/west street that runs between Ocean Avenue and Shoreline
Drive.

The parking
garage entrance seen on the show faces west. Dexter parks his car on the
west side of the road/driveway that runs along the west side of the garage.
He then runs southeast across that road, to reach the garage.

They put up
a fake sign, reading "Stafford Bank", above the garage entrance.
It covered a real sign reading "Public Parking".
(However, that original sign is visible in the shot of Dexter running across
the road.)

The blue ocean
mural briefly glimpsed in the background is the giant Wyland Whaling Wall,
painted on the outside of the round Long Beach Arena (which shares
the Center with two theatres and the Convention building). It lies to the
south of the parking garage.

I
shot the photos below in December 2009.

The
top photo shows the parking garage entrance where Trinity entered:

The
middle photo shows the area where Dexter ran from his car to the garage,
in pursuit of Trinity:

And
this third photo shows the Wyland mural on the side of the Long Beach arena,
glimpsed behind Dexter:

A. This
was fairly easy. We caught a glimpse of the Wyland ocean mural in the background,
and if you know Long Beach, that is an unmistakable landmark. So the only
question was: where is that parking entrance in relation to the mural?
It was a matter of triangulating a few of the buildings seen in the background
(including the International Tower) to draw a line that ran right to the
theatre parking garage.

Then,
of course, I went there in person to shoot the matching photos you see
above.